Shifrinson Awarded Stanton Foundation Grant
Joshua Shifrinson, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, has been awarded a Stanton Foundation Applied History Course Development grant.
The funds will be used to support a new BU course entitled “America Abroad.” The class – tentatively scheduled for the spring of 2020 – will examine debates over the United States’ role in global politics at critical junctures in U.S. diplomatic history and the consequences of the United States’ choices at such moments, in order to engage and evaluate current policy discussions over the merits of U.S. engagement in international affairs.
Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson’s teaching and research interests focus on the intersection of international security and diplomatic history, particularly the rise and fall of great powers and the origins of grand strategy. He has special expertise in great power politics since 1945 and U.S. engagement in Europe and Asia. Shifrinson’s first book, Rising Titans, Falling Giants: How Great Powers Exploit Power Shifts (Cornell University Press, 2018) builds on extensive archival research focused on U.S. and Soviet foreign policy after 1945 to explain why some rising states challenge and prey upon declining great powers, while others seek to support and cooperate with declining states.